Editorial: in the company of Lacs

by Pat Deacon

The cases thatIain
Marrs, my co-editor, and I assembled for this issue began, appropriately, with
the Milks and then spun out in a couple of other directions from there. The
process has been a great pleasure for both of us.

I often seek out published cases for interested patients who would
like to understand what I see in them that led to my prescriptions. Aside from
discussing the remedies, I find that reading about another person’s
experience can bring it home at a different level. Often, it leads those
patients to new discoveries within themselves.

This is part of why I am loving the experience of working on
Interhomeopathy. I have a chance to elicit cases from among my circles of
colleagues and associates in order to expand Interhomeopathy’s
fabulous online database.

One area where I have found very few published cases is the Lacs.
It is not too hard to find a Lac humanum,
Lacmaternum or Laccaninum case online. The newer milks,
though, have not been written up as often. I believe they are essential pieces
in a good homeopathic tool kit. As James Tyler Kent stated, “All
the milks should be potentized, they are our most excellent remedies; they are
animal products and foods of early animal life and therefore correspond to the
beginning of our innermost physical nature.”

Accordingly, this issue began with the attempt to expand a bit in
this area, beginning withJessica
Jackson’s lovely “words straight
from the patient” case and with my own little patient and his
story. Maria Reid’s great review of Patricia Hatherly’s
new book will hopefully encourage more homeopaths to embrace the lesser-known
milks.

Doug Brown’scase, though not of a milk, was
certainly derived from a related substance, and in a very interesting way
indeed. It expands our wonder at homeopathy in several new directions.

Paul Labrèchegives a new angle to an old favourite
remedy - from a category we often do not hear about in
Interhomeopathy.